Sorting Your Way Through the Christmas Aftermath

Christmas is over. Need some help cramming your kids’ new toys into their rooms? Here are some helpful tips for sorting your way back to sanity. 

Christmas has come and gone, bags of ripped-off wrapping paper have been toted to the garbage, and the tree is waiting at the curb to be recycled. All the traditional paraphernalia has been lovingly put away, from the precious glass ornaments to the treasured school projects. But your house still feels over-run by the holidays. 

That’s because you have yet have to face the most daunting task of all: Finding homes for the multitude of toys and miscellaneous bric-a-brac your kids just got. 

There’s an easy way to get everything out from underfoot. Just shove it all into random places in your children’s rooms and then shut their doors (if you can). The easy way takes a few minutes and certainly clears your living room of Barbie debris and wayward Hot Wheels. But it dooms you to an endless cycle of exasperation and frustration every time you fight your way back into their rooms. Don’t be surprised when all those toys spill back into the rest of your house.